Last week, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka reported a 19% drop in crime and an all-time low in the murder rate while announcing the ...

New Jersey's largest city has seen its lowest number of murders in more than seven decades, city officials say.

Despite a pair of recent double murders, officials say data-driven, technology-assisted policing teamed with trauma recovery ...

NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- Officials in Newark released its crime data for 2025 which paints a picture of a city that's ...

Steve Adubato talks with Alejandro Giménez Santana, PhD, Executive Director of Newark Public Safety Collaborative and Assistant Professor of Professional Practice at Rutgers University-Newark School ...

NEWARK (WABC) -- Officials in Newark are taking steps to curb violence after a weekend of shootings that left at least 11 people shot, three of them fatally. The city is beefing up its police presence ...

NEWARK, N.J. — Donnette Goodluck tried all day to pick up the free bottled water the city was distributing as officials addressed a growing lead contamination crisis. Newark Neighborhood Fears Crime, ...

Rashanna James-Frison, a college freshman, who’s written a book of poetry and launched an effort to distribute it to 1,000 Newark 8th graders. The poems reflect her history losing both parents to ...

Overall crime has dipped every year since 2016 in the city. It's the most populous city in New Jersey with over 280,000 residents and regarded as one of its most dangerous. Crime has plagued the city ...

(AP) Democratic Mayor Cory Booker is dealing with a surge in crime in his city with six weeks left in his campaign for a U.S. Senate seat. Newark, New Jersey’s largest city, with 250,000 residents, ...